| The Quarter Sessions were court sittings held in January (Epiphany), April (Easter), July (Thomas a Becket) and October (Michaelmas). The charges heard mostly concerned felony, poaching, keeping disorderly alehouses, wages owed, removal appeals, bad treatment of apprentices by their masters, rates disputes, blocking waterways, and failure of parishes to keep roads and bridges in good order. The Courts also set rates for wages and carriage; details are found in the Record Books, Order Books, Minute Books and the Court Rolls in Northamptonshire Record Office. Records relating to Passenham have been extracted from Kay Collins's indexing work for the period 1686 -1834. |
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Index to Northampton Quarter Sessions 1686 - 1834
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| Forename | Surname | Details | Place | To | Co | Year | Q |
| Charles | ADKINS | & w Frances, John 2 & Thos. 3 mo. | Passenham | Witfield | 1782 | 2 | |
| John | ANDREWS | & w Ann, Jn 14, Sam 10, Eliz 9, Mary 5 | Passenham | Stepney | MDX | 1747 | 2 |
| Thomas | ANDREWS | & w Eliz, Eliz 2, Rob 10wks. | Passenham | Stepney | MDX | 1747 | 2 |
| James | ANDREWS | & w Eliz | Passenham | Stepney | MDX | 1747 | 2 |
| William | ARCHER | & w Martha | Passenham | Winslow | BKM | 1793 | 1 |
| Thomas | BLIGH | & w Eliz., Sophia 3, Benj. 17wks. | Passenham | Great Horwood | BKM | 1818 | 3 |
| Thos. yngr | CLARKE | re poaching fine - unable to pay - discharged | Passenham | 1818 | 3 | ||
| Richard | FEARNE | & w Eliz | Passenham | Lill. Dayrell | BKM | 1801 | 1 |
| Richard | FEARNE | & w Eliz | Passenham | Lill. Dayrell | BKM | 1801 | 2 |
| Richard | FEARNE | & w Eliz | Passenham | Lill. Dayrell | BKM | 1801 | 3 |
| Richard | FEARNE | & w Eliz | Passenham | Lill. Dayrell | BKM | 1801 | 4 |
| Joseph | GAYTON | & w Eliz | Passenham | Wicken | 1766 | 2 | |
| John | GODFREY | lab & wife & children removal order discharged | Passenham | Loughton | BKM | 1702 | 2 |
| William | GRIFFIN | & w Mary | Passenham | Evesham | WAR | 1772 | 1 |
| Eliz | HARRIS | wid & Jn 4, Edw 2, Wm 8 mo. | Passenham | Hartwell | 1818 | 2 | |
| James | HARRIS | & w Sabina | Passenham | Abthorpe | 1801 | 4 | |
| Thomas | HIGHAM | & Eliz & 5 children (named & aged) | Passenham | Abthorpe | 1832 | 2 | |
| Elizabeth | HUN | & 2 ch - removal | Passenham | Bow Brickhill | BKM | 1699 | 1 |
| James | JOHNSON | re assult on constable - fined 5s - gaol until paid | Passenham | 1826 | 3 | ||
| James | ROBINSON | & w & 2 ch - removel appeal | Passenham | Stony Stratford | BKM | 1696 | 2 |
| James | ROBINSON | & wife & 2 children - removal appeal | Passenham | Stony Stratford | BKM | 1696 | 2 |
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